General Mills Canada’s customer hotline cited low sales as the reason the ghoulish cartoon characters will not be returning to the cereal section anytime soon. Their unannounced disappearance at least three years ago prompted a few online inquiries about their disappearance.

A Facebook group titled “Bring back Count Chocula to Canada” surfaced around this time last year with the goal of getting 1,000 members in order to get the attention of General Mills. It stalled at 81.

Chocolate breakfast cereals are nonetheless experiencing a small renaissance.

The flavours represented by Franken Berry — which was introduced in 1971 alongside the Count — and Boo Berry — which came along a couple of years later — do not seem to inspire similar demand.

Regardless, there is considerable nostalgia for the cartoon mascots who inspired the idea of adding milk to a bowl of sugary morsels. But relatively few will follow through with a purchase of the product.